Portrait of Washington and Billy Lee by John Trumbull, 1780
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BORN:
c. 1750
DIED:
1828 at Mount Vernon, Virginia
Buried in the slave burial ground at Mount Vernon.
Buried in the slave burial ground at Mount Vernon.
- During the summer of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, with Washington presiding, Billy Lee stood behind his master’s chair and tended to his personal needs.